HARRY KURNITZ (1907 - 1968)
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Plays by Harry Kurnitz
Girl Who Came to Supper |
| 1st Produced: | Broadway Theater, New York | 1963 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | kos-2420 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: Columbia (KOS-2420) | 1963 | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Notes: | Music by Noël Coward; Book by Harry Kurnitz; Lyrics by Noël Coward; Based on the play "The Sleeping Prince" by Terence Rattigan | |||||
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Once More With Feeling |
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | The central figure is a symphony conductor, a perfectionist, but also one possessed of a temper that causes him to bang instruments on the heads of his musicians, break batons by the scores and tear the shirts off his fiddlers as a form of constructive criticism. His ex-wife, who was never legally married to the conductor, who now wants a divorce, finds herself on the French horns of a dilemma. The conductor's agent, a colorful fellow addicted to larceny, perjury and skullduggery in the interest of a client and his commission. Knowing that the lady in the conductor's life is the only female who can tame him long enough for the sponsors of an orchestra to sign him, he finally brings the two together and out of the resulting cacophony finally creates harmony." | |||||
Reclining Figure |
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | As told by Kerr in the New York Herald-Tribune: "Playwright Harry Kurnitz has hit upon a background that generates its own chaos: the sleek, effusive and cheerfully dishonest world of the art experts. He has set up a gullible millionaire who keeps ten-cent cigars in a twelve hundred dollar spice chest and who is fond of collecting the recent masters. He runs him afoul of a high-pressure dealer who is given to crying like a baby when parting with his treasures, a hard-drinking 'restorer' with a talent for forgery and a soft-headed young salesman with high ideals and, unfortunately, a hot property on his hands. The chicanery pyramids with an easy logic, throats are cut with casual charm," and the intrigue mounts delightfully as romance and art mix to everyone's satisfaction. | |||||
Shot In The Dark, A |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
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| Notes: | Original Playwright - Marcel Achard | |||||
| Synopsis: | good hearted and guileless child of nature charged with murder having been found unconscious, nude and clutching a gun with her lover dead beside her | |||||